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Where Do You Think You Live?

The material here has been provided by The Welwyn Garden City Heritage Trust which was created by a community project about the history & development of the town.

There are three elements to the project:

House Detectives - encouraging residents to investigate the history of their homes using archive material from HALS, WGC Library local studies and Mill Green Museum.

Memories - early residents are contributing their recollections of the town which are digitally recorded as oral histories. Priority is given to capturing those whose memories date back furthest but all are welcome to participate.

Photography - we are building an archive of material on Welwyn Garden City from photographs that are loaned for scanning or donated outright to the Trust. 

Material generated by the project was exhibited at Oaklands College in July 2011. Mill Green Museum will show some of the material in its gallery in January 2012. Read more about the project at https://welwyngarden-heritage.org/

  • "The Salon" and Tom Heron of Cresta Silks
    "The Salon" and Tom Heron of Cresta Silks
    The most wonderful clothes
  • A 1940's Eastside Memory
    A 1940's Eastside Memory
    Playing in the Back Field
  • A difficult journey to WGC in 1939
    A difficult journey to WGC in 1939
    From Leipzig with help from WGC Quakers
  • A family arrives in 1924
    A family arrives in 1924
    An early encounter with a car in Valley Road
  • A German bomb & de Havilland Aeronautical Technical School
    A German bomb & de Havilland Aeronautical Technical School
    October 4th 1940
  • A house on Parkway
    A house on Parkway
    My brother said "You know Dad there's a lovely lot of new houses being built in Welwyn Garden City. Why don't we go and have a look at them?"
  • A move from Sunderland
    A move from Sunderland
    Relocation paid for by labour exchange
  • A Nursery Nurse in WGC
    A Nursery Nurse in WGC
    I trained at Ludwick Nursery School
  • An East side home
    An East side home
    "it was terribly cold and very wet and there was clay all round the house, nothing else at all"
  • An operation at the Cottage Hospital
    An operation at the Cottage Hospital
    A bit of a dust up with a Handside pupil and the Cherry Tree Restaurant from a child's perspective
  • Barleycroft Road Welwyn Garden City
    Barleycroft Road Welwyn Garden City
    House plans
  • Barry T: Working for Louis De Soissons
    Barry T: Working for Louis De Soissons
    "My first real experience of work"
  • Born in Bridge Road
    Born in Bridge Road
    Marjorie was born in Bridge Road, Welwyn Garden City in 1932. She recorded her early memories of the town for the ...
  • Brick Mosaics
    Brick Mosaics
    A curious feature of early WGC
  • Childhood memories of the 1930's
    Childhood memories of the 1930's
    Go-karting and a film set in Sherrards Park Woods
  • Early years in The Quadrangle
    Early years in The Quadrangle
    I don't ever remember being bored
  • East-side and West-side
    East-side and West-side
    Everybody was very friendly
  • First impressions of the town in 1931
    First impressions of the town in 1931
    My first impression was how small everything was
  • From Canada to WGC
    From Canada to WGC
    Memories of the first Welwyn Stores
  • From South Shields to WGC
    From South Shields to WGC
    Guarding Digswell viaduct
  • Grandparents came to WGC in 1920
    Grandparents came to WGC in 1920
    Daphne’s grandparents Henry and Elizabeth Bullen moved into 1 Junction Cottages, on 16th June 1920, with their four sons.  This extract ...
  • Handside Memories
    Handside Memories
    Pre-Campus West Entertainment!
  • Hatfield Hyde and Woodhall
    Hatfield Hyde and Woodhall
    Dad went to the pump to fetch our water for the day
  • Knella Road Memories
    Knella Road Memories
    "It was all open fields."
  • History Of Your House

    History Of Your House (21)

    Tips on researching the history of your house
  • Recent Images of the Town

    Recent Images of the Town (12)

    Photographs submitted to the Where Do You Think You Live? project
  • House Detectives

    House Detectives (9)

    The history of some WGC homes gathered by residents using local archives
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